Plz help me with a few phrases I am having trouble with from Psyren Ch 1Page 27:http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5431/psyren27cj1.jpgBig Middle Panel - 2nd bubble
煙のように現れてはきえ
he appears like smoke... and then wat?
plz explain how "現れてはきえ" this grammar construction works =[

Big Middle Panel - Last line of 3rd bubble
報告されてるんだ
plz read that bubble and explain y is there a "causative passive" construction?
it sounds to me like... "they were forced to report"

４th Panel － End of 1st bubble
彼らとの唯一の連絡手段らしい
I dont get y they used との after 彼ら
Does it mean.. "It appears thats the only way to make contact with them"

It sounds like...
Bubble 1 － To whoever unlocks the secret of psyren...
Bubble 2 - A person offering an award of 500 million yen has appeared
?????? huh????
Panel 3 - 2nd Bubble
とにかく。。 この五億円でサイレンの謎解きに一気に火がついた
Why do they use a に at the place i bolded?
It seems like a は is more appropriate to me =S

So arent the 2 redundant? and it sounds kinda weird to me.. like a negative x negative = positive situation...

Panel 2
五億円はいくだろう
i get the gist of the sentence (you will get 500 million)
but i dont get y they use いく?
drawing on my knowledge of いく's definition, it doesnt make sense...

Panel 4
LAST ONE!!
Just the first sentence..
忠告しとくけど。。
i have never seen this grammar construction b4... (infinitive + とく)
is it slang or something? plz tell me the full proper sentence
and I dont get the けど part. It sounds like "I would advise u but.."

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胸張って
wat does this suppose to mean?

A BIG THANKYOU TO THOSE WHO R HELPING ME

February 07, 2009, 12:42 AM

Ju-da-su

Re: A Bit of Translation Help Plz

I never read Psyren before, but . . . will try to help with some of them then. (since I'm hungry now. Got to go already . . . >_<") Sorry, I can only help with some of them, not all. I'll probably come back to help sometimes later . . . >_<"

Plus, I'm really bad at explaining how language works . . . >_<"

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Originally Posted by Y-unit

Big Middle Panel - 2nd bubble
煙のように現れてはきえ
he appears like smoke... and then wat?
plz explain how "現れてはきえ" this grammar construction works =[

４th Panel － End of 1st bubble
彼らとの唯一の連絡手段らしい
I dont get y they used との after 彼ら
Does it mean.. "It appears thats the only way to make contact with them"

との is just . . . don't know how to explain it, but you got that right . . . just divide it to 彼らと and の . . . Gah! I failed at explaining . . . anyway, at least you got it right already . . . >_<"

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Panel 1 - Both bubbles
I dont get how both of them link...
Bubble 1 - サイレンの真実をつきとめた者に
Bubble 2 - 五億円の懸賞金をかける者が現れた

It sounds like...
Bubble 1 － To whoever unlocks the secret of psyren...
Bubble 2 - A person offering an award of 500 million yen has appeared
?????? huh????

"There is even a person who is willing to
pay 500 million yens to whomever unveil the truth about Psyren"?

>_>"

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Panel 3 - 2nd Bubble
とにかく。。 この五億円でサイレンの謎解きに一気に火がついた
Why do they use a に at the place i bolded?
It seems like a は is more appropriate to me =S

Because the solution to the riddle of Psyren didn't burned out itself . . . it's the people who want those money that got fired up and all motivated to solve the riddle for those money . . . ? At least that's what I think it implies . . . >_>"

So arent the 2 redundant? and it sounds kinda weird to me.. like a negative x negative = positive situation...

No . . . basically, it's just about "the Teleka that had never been used just yet" It isn't really a double negative thing . . . まだ + Negative = not yet . . . まだ alone can simply just mean "still" . . . doesn't have to be negative . . . >_<"

So . . . "If we really . . . find a Teleka that had never yet been used before . . . "?

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胸張って
wat does this suppose to mean?

胸を張る 【むねをはる】 (exp) to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride